You can now register your drone if you use it for commercial purposes online at the FAA website. You no longer have to complete paperwork for them. Click HERE to their Registration Site, it is simple and takes about 5 minutes.
If you need a Registrati
Read more…I'm trying to calculate how fast I can decelerate a drone or what's the stopping distance. Are there any good rules of thumb (ex. stay below x m/s)?
Read more…I know this statement will raise the question who is this guy coming and telling us that current day autopilots are all wrong. Well I have been flying RC Planes from the age of 10 and have been using autopilots from the early Ardupilot of 2009 -2010
Read more…Hey one of my motors isn't spinning correctly can someone help
Read more…Hi there everyone, I'm currently working on a Pixhawk Flight Controller for my Master's Degree Thesis and i would like to know the steps that are necessary to read an analog sensor from ADC 3.3V port. I have been reading post's on DIY Drones communit
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I wanted to used the wind calculation and wind direction on the HUD.
So after the fly i take the tlog recorded and try to extract the wind parameters.
But cleary it is not the same so i suppose that the data store are some raw data and there is s
Read more…I am building an X8 Multirotor. I would like to use one of the arms as the front facing direction. Does anyone know if Arducopter supports the plus (+) configuration or must we use the default X configuration only if flying an X8 octacopter?
This
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the performance of stators is crucial for the motor performance, however, how about its price and cost to get a high performance bldc stators core lamination?
normally the process to stamp the stator includes the follwing steps:
1. design the punching
Read more…Does autotune just generally not work well with large copters that have low KV motors? (using 6S, 320kv, 17x5.5 CF props). Honestly I think it flew much better with the default settings than what autotune found for it...and the yaw is super slow an
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Im new to autopilot.. usually i build RC planes(fixed wing) and fly mannually..Now im trying to integrate a good autopilot and fly autonomously by giving waypoints and wanna try many flight modes. Which board will be comfortable for beginners...
Hi Guys,
I am strungling with my X8 frame (3DR X8+ with ArduCopter V3.2.1 and pre-installed param). It was fine flying in Belgium, but after transportation to Peru I observe some issues during navigation (auto/RTL). I have redone the compass calibrati
Read more…So I have finally done a savetrim on my quad.
The offsets are quite large. I have attached a pic of what mission planner shows when the quad is sitting at home on my level floor.
Is this OK?
I have checked and AHRS trim X/Y have both been affected.
Read more…3 year old 3DR Y6 kit with APM2.6, two crashes in that time, but cannot seem to get it back to stable. I noticed that in terminal mode, after connect, it displays "ublox" then garbage keeps being displayed. Not sure if the GPS/Compass took the brun
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I have G-3D Gimbal controller from walkera and I want to attach it with pixhawk ( actually its chines pixhawk called pixhack ) but it's similar to pixhawk .
I tried to connect the wires from the gimbal to pixhawk put when I power the gimba
Read more…Hi everyone,
i want to open PX4 firmware and compile by Qt Creator on Windows OS, but the developer link
http://dev.px4.io/starting-building.html show the following message:
Windows has not been tested with Qt creator yet.
now ,i us
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1 hr Endurance, 3-5 amp battery, 400g payload, camera gimbal, FPV, Low vibration, crash survivable,
Helium recovery and storage after each day of use.
Welcome to the LED - Long Endurance Dronehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMPtHGWouNQ
Br
I am trying to set up the Eachine Racer 250 with a FS Th9X transmitter using a FrSky D4R-II 4 channel receiver. This is the setup that I use for my 3DR Iris+ and I would like to be able to use the same transmitter for both.
Is this combination possi
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I have been working on MonoPhan thrust vectoring EDF drones for a while now. I will posting my work on this technology here.
Below is the test video of my new nano unit with a nano FPV cam on it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=echU1LLIjkg&
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I'm trying to figure out what made my drone runaway (extremely fast) when in one of the "automatic"-modes (RTL and auto).
Video:
Mission:
Actual flight:
Story:
I had the whole quad working just fine
Read more…I had my taranis to set the flight mode channel to RTL as it's failsafe. I did not set the APM failsafe, I should have tested this, but it does not work and I'm not sure I understand why.
Testing on the bench, If I center all sticks and flip my RTL sw
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